Presentations
Friday Sept. 26, 2008
Session 1 Setting the scene
Minna Halme: Opening words
Prabhu Kandachar, TU Delft: Base of the pyramid strategy - eradicating poverty with innovations?
Session 2 Business and design solutions for the BOP
Rama Bijaburkar, author & strategy consultant: Building businesses to profitably serve low income consumers: The Indian experience - will not be available here.
Mika Skarp, Head of Village Connection Product Management, Nokia Siemens Networks: Connecting the next billion: Affordable communication for rural communities
Simona Rocchi, Director of Sustainable Design, Philips Design: Designing together with users at the BOP: An innovation experience based on value co-creation and user insights. Recipient of the IDEA2008 award from IDSA.
Dr. Helen Pates-Jamet, Head of Entymology of Vestergaard-Frandsen, the innovator firm of LifeStraw: Design for the 3rd world
Sultanur Reza, Head of Community Information Centre Innovations, GrameenPhone: Will Community Information Centres reduce poverty? Lessons learnt at the GrameenPhone
Johanna Liukkonen, Manager, Government and Industry Affairs, Emerging Markets, Nokia Corporation: Innovating for the local needs of low-income consumers at the BoP
Workshops
WS1. Consumer perspectives & wellbeing at the BOP.
WS2. The role of NGOs and enabling policies
WS3. Innovating sustainable energy for the rural BOP
Session 3 Experiences at the BOP
Georgina Koomson, Entrepreneur & Managing Director of Ideal Providence Farms: Linking rural women in organic farming to international markets - Experiences of IDEAL Providence Farms in Ghana
Dr. Sirpa Tenhunen, University of Helsinki: Mobile technology in the village: An anthropological view
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008
Session 4 Towards inclusive markets
Christina Gradl, Co-Author, UNDP Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative: Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor. Project Report behind this link.
Dr. Kent Wilska, Commercial Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland: Strengthening productive capacities at the base of the pyramid: creating policies for inclusive capitalism
Session 5 Micro-finance and insurance at the BOP
Tim Vang, co-founder and development director of microfinance venture MyC4: MyC4 - Global catalyst to end poverty through micro-finance (link to the MyC4 website).
Dr. Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen, Chief Executive Officer, Uganda Insurers’ Association, Uganda: Providing insurance products in developing countries - the challenges for formal insurance companies.
Session 6 Sustainability challenges at the BOP
Dr. Frank Wijen, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University: Environmental sustainability challenges for BOP business
Burcu Tuncer, UNEP Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: Which BOP approach can help leapfrogging poverty barriers and conserve resources? - The Perspective of Human Development through the Market
Prof. Liisa Välikangas, President, Innovation Democracy, Inc. & Helsinki School of Economics: When Less is More: The Battle Between Resources and Imagination
Minna Halme, closing discussion: The next steps for sustainable development at the Base of the Pyramid